I’d bet an electric bike would work well in most cities, especially ones that you can reference and people recognize.
I think the market that it misses most is the people who live outside of cities/towns, and have to travel that initial 10+ miles just to get into the city. Still feasible, but less so
And winters.
I live in one of these out west cities. I’d take an electric bike over my car in a heartbeat for most of the spring/summer/fall. To bad a decent electric bike is extremely expensive.
I’d bet an electric bike would work well in most cities, especially ones that you can reference and people recognize.
I think the market that it misses most is the people who live outside of cities/towns, and have to travel that initial 10+ miles just to get into the city. Still feasible, but less so
And winters.
I live in one of these out west cities. I’d take an electric bike over my car in a heartbeat for most of the spring/summer/fall. To bad a decent electric bike is extremely expensive.
Not compared to owning/maintaining a car.
If you are still required to own and maintain that car even with the ownership of the bike, then yes, it is.
Very good point here actually
Say it to delivery workers in Moscow. No, say it to Finns.
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I’m curious what you mean about this? Do you think Finns and Russians are delivering packages/food/whatever during bad winter weather on Ebikes?
Given winter being almost constant weather condition in Finland I assume they don’t stop delivering because they are on another side of melting point.
And about Russians yes. I see food delivery workers using ebikes entire year in any weather.
Do you live close to the equator? Cause that shits uniformed.
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I’d say decent ones are down to about $1000 these days.
My ebike cost around €1500 and I’d say it’s decent…
Oh yeah, a decent ebike in the mountains costs around 2-3k. Probably not that bad for settled people.
But sadly, that’s as expensive as my car. Hopefully this college thing pays off though